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Inspired by the “OSM Bright Minimal” style for Tilemill, I’ve created a similar background map style for osm2po layers in QGIS trunk (uses features unavailable in 1.7.3): osm2po_light_style.qml. Together with a grey background (RGB:232,232,232) and an OSM natural layer (RGB:208,208,208 for water), the style looks like this:

example map using osm2po_light_style.qml

It’s plain and bright, so any overlay will stand out nicely. Hope you find it useful.

you should find a folder with the name of the prefix you chose inside the osm2po folder. It contains a log file which in turn provides a command line template for importing the OSM network into PostGIS, e.g.

This post covers the necessary steps to use osm2po on Windows. Osm2po is both, a converter and a routing engine. It parses OpenStreetMap data and makes it routable. While osm2pgrouting seems to be limited by the amount of memory that is available on your system, osm2po is able to convert large sets like europe.osm. It generates SQL Insert scripts for PostGIS, compatible with pgRouting and Quantum GIS.

To get started, download osm2po and an OSM binary file like e.g. austria.osm.pbf. Extract osm2po and you’ll find the .jar file together with the tool’s documentation (German only though).